Nilay talks with Sal Khan, the co-founder, and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online learning platform for students in kindergarten through high school.
Show Notes
On this week’s episode of CTRL-ALT-TALK, Nilay talks with Sal Khan, the co-founder, and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online learning platform for students in kindergarten through high school. Khan Academy is an organization that exists because of technology. What started with Sal tutoring his niece in math over video using off the shelf cameras and software, has grown into an organization with nearly 20 million users per month, available in 46 languages and used in more than 190 countries. And online learning has gotten even more vital with the pandemic.
In this conversation, Nilay and Sal discuss the future of learning, what online education is good at and where it struggles, how Khan Academy is growing, and how Sal’s thinking about handling trickier subjects like history and social studies.
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